AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs AMD Radeon Pro 560X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon Pro 560X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (94.08GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 560X +90%

2.056 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

VS

Radeon Pro 560X

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1470 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

94.08GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

16

800

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.06 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

64.26 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.056 TFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.056 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

128.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

3 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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